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Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Prosecutors in the northern state of Sinaloa investigating whether the young model and beauty queenMaria Susana Flores, died on Saturday in a clash with the Mexican army, belonged to an organized crime gang. "The evidence we have is who was in the group of criminals who clashed with the Army," said state prosecutor Marco Antonio Higuera Gomez. The crash occurred on Saturday morning in the town of Mocorito, when a group of soldiers conducting tours and met people who started shooting, so repelled the attack. Flores, 22, was reportedly accompanied by her boyfriend , who also died in the shooting and that authorities would be one of the perpetrators of the military. In the confrontation also killed two members of the Army and, according Higuera Gomez, four suspects were arrested and are in the hands of federal prosecutors. "In the place where he found the body of the young girl, very close to her was an AK-47 , so it will be the Attorney General who determines how far was his participation in this criminal act, "said attorney.

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The body of the young winner of a local contest called Beauty Woman Sinaloa is being guarded by dozens of members of the Mexican Army, who watch the funeral home where his remains are blurred. The organization of Nuestra Belleza Sinaloa contest that Flores participated but did not win, expressed his condolences to family and friends of the model with a message posted on social networks. This is not the first time that a beauty queen in this state was found possible links to drug trafficking groups. In 2008, the then winning the contest Nuestra Belleza Sinaloa , Laura Elena Zúñiga , was arrested along with seven men with guns and thousands of dollars in cash in the city of Guadalajara. Weeks after she was released because no sufficient evidence could be found that relate to organized crime. His story was made ​​into a film by director Gerardo Naranjo last year with his film Miss Bala, Mexico's candidate for the Oscar this year. In this state in northwestern Mexico dominates the Sinaloa cartel , led by Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, but the presence of other groups that will fight for control of territory as Los Zetas and the Beltran Leyva